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we have to love people — fiercely — as a matter of politics we have to care and show up for people first to have any right to demand other conditions or share any ideology

if you are an anarchist, people have to matter to you not The People™ or even “your people”, but actual people, real humans, folks as they are in splotches and phlegm

if you don’t love people, you can’t believe in them if you don't love people (people, people), you can’t work toward people having say in their own lives

it’s not enough to hate the bastards it’s not enough to yearn to see billionaires thrown down and ripped apart by dogs that may be morally defensible, but it’s still just targeted sadism you have to love people to be an anarchist

you have to talk to people and understand them — including when they say and believe things you hate and materially oppose — to be an anarchist you have to love people, have faith in them, and understand yourself always to be among them. but love them as yourself

there is no one else but us there is no savior but us there is no answer but what we answer and we must answer with love fiercely. we must answer with love unwavering

our potency is in our concern for people as *people*, as whole, full persons deserving of baseline affection and care we must do it because we all deserve it, and we are increased by showing up for everyone regardless of who “deserves it”